Today, we roll out the OSNews Meta Blog. We are trying something new. Whereas OSNews proper is moderated and logged, the OSNews Meta Blog is here solely to discuss the site, without bombing an unrelated news thread. It’s unmoderated, anonymous, and, perhaps best of all…. XHTML compliant. For details, please visit this post.
Introducing the OSNews Meta Blog
About The Author
Adam Scheinberg
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w00t, first post!
Okay so maybe moderation is needed sometimes.
When the practical reality (assuming people actually are tempted to use it instead of spewing in standard threads) is that it is OSNews Graffiti, complete with the pissing matches like street gangs engage in?
lol, Looks like a good idea… Looks somewhat i like a mini forum to me…..
I’ll check it out later today.
–ZaNkY
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At one point, I thought I invented the idea of a metablog, but now I see it here.
In my case, it was an extravagance of wishing to stop polluting my personal weblog (which I intended to be of a certain sort of writing) with site update news (i.e. “I just updated to WordPress 1.5 and updated my theme!”) Having studied philosophy, I thought “metablog” was a clever term.
I’ve thought to myself before, hey, this is a good idea. Maybe real sites should do this. Like OSNews, Slashdot, and FARK could all keep their news about their own sites constrained to one area so as to not pollute their content.
This, however, is the first site I’ve actually seen doing this. Can I ask, where’d you get the idea? What other sites have metablogs?
(keeping myself anonymous as to not embarrass myself by claiming to have invented something I’m sure I didn’t)
Can I ask, where’d you get the idea?
From our our beta site. We used to host beta.osnews.com, and there were some people that had really good input. The current osnews site is very kludgy, and I really wanted a place to be able to speak to users about the site without being so pretentious as to mash it in with real news. So a “meta blog” was a great idea.
Hopefully, people will use it. I have a lot of things I’d like to discuss there.
How about having comments nested. It makes it easier when following a discussion.
.02c worth; add salt to taste and stir.
Since you are experimenting with XHTML, why not have a print media section for making the regular page printer friendly when printed, instead of a seperate printer-friendly page? It works, and this seems like a good site to experiment with it.
I meant a print media section in your CSS style code.
Good idea. Write the stylesheet, and I’d be happy to include the @import statement.
I may experiment with that at some point, but for now, I’d invite you to have a stab at it.
I emailed this to Adam, so sorry for “cross-posting” (sort of), but it’s a weird bug.
“I’ve been trying to post a comment in the article “Moderation: Ain’t What it Should Be”, but can not.
Using Opera and Firefox, I get “You did not correctly confirm the text in the image” every single time. With IE, it simply says “Cannot display the page”.
I posted earlier fine, and since it does this across browsers, I have a feeling there’s something on the server end.”
It’s a browser bug. IE can’t display a URL that long. I will have to change the app to not pass that much info in a URL.
I should have it ironed out tomorrow. Try using Firefox, it will work. You should be using Firefox anyway
I said that I tried firefox, same problem as Opera. It’s not a browser issue.
And don’t tell me to use Firefox, I’m a diehard Opera user damn it! <shakes fist>
I have the same problem as sappyvcv. I’m using FireFox 1.0.7 [danish].
I don’t believe it’s a browser issue at all.
Same issue, and I have a pretty big comment.
On another note, the [br] tag doesn’t work unless I have a closing [/br] tag, which is just odd.
Don’t use br. Just press enter – line breaks are preserved.
That does not show up in the preview, it looks like I just have one big blob if I don’t use the [br]’s.
ok, thanks. i’ll look into that.
try now. see what happens.
there is a big that i can reproduce that ALWAYS says the first try with the image is incorrect, but subsequent tries work. I’m attacking that now… thus far, unsuccessfully.
Nope. Tried 4 times with each browser.
>>> I said that I tried firefox,
same here…
Actually, in the preview linebrakes were completely ignored for me. Even writing [br] and [/br] by hand.
that’s fixed.